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A Las Vegas area grandmother has won the $1 million jackpot on Aristocrat Technologies' Millioni$er Hyperlink penny slot games for the second time in less than a year.

The Nevada Gaming Control Board has bounced an application for a restricted gaming license back to its staff and will await word on whether the applicant passed a hair follicle drug test.

Prospective buyers have reserved 100 percent of the available condominium units in Donald Trump's first planned Las Vegas development.

Under two draft amendments to existing regulations, Nevada liquor stores would be allowed to place up to four slot machines in their businesses.

The Nevada Gaming Control Board unanimously approved a series of corporate registrations for Randy Black's Mesquite gaming empire that will enable the dominant player in that market to enter the bond market.

JCM American has supplied a total currency solution to the new Wynn Las Vegas.

International News Brief: Paul Maxfield returned home with the largest sum ever netted by any Briton in a poker game in the United States.

Weeks removed from its busiest month on record and with further growth projected in the months and years to come, McCarran International Airport simply can't afford to rely on the status quo.

Starting June 10, the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art will present a new collection of nineteenth century French paintings on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Warning shareholders not to judge the long-term performance of his resort based on its opening weekend, Steve Wynn nevertheless dropped several hints at the company's annual stockholders meeting Monday to suggest that his new resort was off to a good start.

According to economic projections, the state of Nevada has as much as $585 million of them in surplus for the fiscal year ending June 30, and lawmakers will have to wrestle with how much of that to spend or give back to residents.

For the first time since becoming a publicly traded company, the shareholders of Wynn Resorts Ltd. were able to hold their annual meeting in a building that was producing revenue toward their investment.

The 1.5-million-square-foot condominium and hotel expansion project will break ground in October, Hard Rock Hotel President Kevin Kelley said after the presentation.

In Las Vegas, bankers hardly blink at a multi-million dollar change order from a Strip casino customer, but such a request creates quite a stir in just about any other market.

The most expensive bowling center in the nation opened last month at the Sunset Station casino in Henderson.

When Barbary Coast General Manager Ronnie Highsmith talks about working his way up from the bottom, he truly means it.

Conventional wisdom holds that last week's opening of developer Steve Wynn's newest project will spark new hotel development and economic growth. However, some industry experts say Wynn is joining the growth wave, not causing it.

Union Equity Inc. has executed a pre-construction reservation agreement to acquire a unit at the new Hard Rock Hotel & Casino condominium in Las Vegas, Nevada.

News Brief: The Atlantis Casino Resort & Spa in south Reno cranked up its first-quarter profit despite the winter weather that chilled business the first few months of 2005.

News Brief: Alcohol is rapidly becoming the king of profits in the Las Vegas resort industry, thanks to high mark-ups and the popularity of nightclubs and pricey ‘bottle service’ at trendy ultra-lounges.